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DETAILED PROJECT REPORT (DPR) 2009-10
1.2 Need of Watershed Development Programme
Watershed Development Programme is prioritised on the basis of thirteen parameters namely Poverty Index, Percentage of SC/ST,
Actual wages, Percentage of small and marginal farmers, Ground water status, Moisture Index, Area under rain fed agriculture, Drinking water
situation in the area, Percentage of the degraded land, Productivity potential of the land, Continuity of another watershed that has already
developed/treated, Cluster approach for plain of desert. Based on these six parameters a composite ranking was given to Antrol Watershed
project as given in table no. 2.
The total number of families under BPL is 758, which is less than 28.77 percent of the total households of the Cluster. Hence a score of 5
is allotted. The percentage of ST, SC in the Cluster Cluster is about 15 per cent to the total population; hence a score of 3.57 was allotted.
Rainfed, agriculture forms the primary occupation of the Cluster due to the fact that ground water is saline and hence unfit for usage. More than
90 per cent of the farmers are small and marginal by nature and the actual wages earned by the labour is less than the minimum wages hence a
composite rank of 5, 0 and 3 are allotted respectively.
Since the rainfall received is erratic and irregular, the moisture index is low and the area is classified under DDP block. Drinking water is
Major problematic in the Cluster. Majority of land is degraded due to inherent salinity. The soil is very permeable and production of the land
can be significantly enriched with the availability of timely irrigation. Antrol watershed falls in continuity with other watersheds namely
Idatha, Cluster approach was followed taking into consideration Three micro-watersheds covering a total area of 4900Ha. Thus a cumulative
score of 36
All the parameters taken together give a cumulative score of 36 to the watershed (reference Table 2.1 below).
Table no.2: Weightage of the project
Proje
ct
name
Antrol
Project
type
Desert
Average
Clusters
Name
Weightage
I ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii
Anrtol 5 3 5 0 3 0 15 5 0 0 0 0 0
Naroli 5 5 5 0 3 0 15 7.5 0 0 0 0 0
Radka 10 5 5 0 3 0 15 7.5 0 0 0 0 0
Sherau 2.5 3 5 0 3 0 15 5 0 0 0 0 0
Rajkot 5 3 5 0 3 0 15 5 0 0 0 0 0
Ranesari 5 3 5 0 3 0 15 5 0 0 0 0 0
Kasavi 2.5 3 5 0 3 0 15 5 0 0 0 0 0
5 3.57 5 0 3 0 15 5.71 0 0 0 0 0
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